Communism in Russia vs. China In both Russia and China, they used the ideologies of Karl Marx to influence the way their country was run. Communism has been present in both China and Russia for quite some time. While they may have occurred at different times and had slowly started to drift apart in similarities, they still have a few things in common.
In 1848, a man by the name of Karl Marx founded communism as an ideology. Marx believed that private property would have public ownership to be used for major production purposes. These now public properties consisted of factories, mines, mills, etc., which needed to be controlled by an elite class. Marx also focused on giving the people the equality which everyone naturally had (Dagger, Richard).
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After hearing about the recent coup, throwing out the czar, Lenin came back to Russia from his exiled in Switzerland. Using his charisma and status, he helped kick start another revolution which knocked out the makeshift democracy. This made a place for the Bolsheviks (communists) to place themselves in a position of power in the government. (Rashid, Aatif). Lenin came to be an influential person in the Bolshevik party and used Karl Marx’s ideas to make Communism in Russia blossom. Two major things he did were make private industry and agriculture public and redistributed the land of wealthy proprietors to peasants. This went well for a few years, until the Russian Civil War ended in 1920. While they came out victorious, Russia was left in disaster. The economic productivity was insufficient and the people were starving and unhappy. Because of this, Lenin was desperate for a new change to benefit the people, so he announced the New Economic Policy. The state took control of large industries again, but people were encouraged to have private and individual businesses. Soon after this was out in place, another major change was about to occur in the Russian government. This occurred after Lenin died in 1924. Joseph Stalin took over his place and became the leader of the Communist Party. He began intimidating and doubting his rivals while also claiming to see spies everywhere. He cleared the party and general population of Russia or these so called “spies.” By executing or exiling rebels to Siberia, he struck fear into those who remained after his purging. Everyone lived in fear of Stalin’s secret police and he ruled over Russia with an iron fist from that point on until his death (Dagger,
Communism started around the mid - nineteenth century. It is a political and economic belief. Communists work toward getting rid of any privately owned property or any businesses that make a profit (“Communism”). In Communism, there is no personal ownership, because the government owns everything. Since the Government owns everything, the only people eligible to earn money are people with high paying jobs. It appeared there were no middle or poor class, but only a rich class. Communists used the class system to try to work on eliminating any properties owned or profit’s made. But it didn’t work. In a communist society, the class system is the main reason why the society failed.
Communism was a philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the early 1840s. They believed the proletariat class would being a revolution in which they would take power from the bourgeoisie, and then establish a nation of equals, in which one works not for themselves, but for their country. It is a classless society in
Communism was founded by Karl Marx and was set up to help the government out by saving money and elimination the social class system. It was a form of socialism and is the idea
Karl Marx developed a new system, a more strict society in which could benefit the people which is the most realistic system called Communism. Karl Marx made a more strict socialism since he disliked capitalism. Communism is a form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx. All property is publicly owned and operated by the government. The workers worked for the public government, since all is controlled by the government all wealth is controlled and no individual profit is made only community profit.
In 1917, Russia was crumbling into pieces. The World War I was draining all of Russia’s resources. There was shortage of food throughout the country, which left people starving. At the battlefront, millions of Russian soldiers were dying, they did not possess many of the powerful weapons that their opponents had. The government under Czar Nicholas II was disintegrating, and a provisional government had been set up. In November of 1917, Lenin and his communist followers known as the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and set a communist government in Russia. However, in 1924, Lenin died and Josef Stalin assumed leadership of the Soviet Union, which was the name for the communist Russia. Stalin was a ruthless leader who brought
Communism is a system of social organisation which formerly consumed almost a third of countries in the entire world, having originated in Russia. The first official communist state was founded during the Russian revolutions in 1917, due to the inaugural communist political party ‘Bolsheviks’ gaining primal power. Afterwards, the influence of communism spread to other countries with the likes of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany to name a few. These countries that were governed on communist principles were known as the ‘Eastern Bloc’. Even countries in Asia were persuaded into the theoretically human equality system such as China, Laos and Vietnam. Communism was gathering strength to strength every year in the mid 20th century, but eventually its impact was wiped off in the late 20th century when the Berlin War was knocked down in 1989, ending the barrier between the Eastern and Western blocs. Communism arguably was the most influential social experiment in history, but also the most flawed and its failure to change the world permanently will always remain significant in history.
Lenin grew up in a middle class family but was never fond of the political party and the class system. Having a Marxist political belief system, Lenin wanted the government to own and control everything. After taking control of the Soviet Union, Lenin wanted supreme power for himself and the government, with hopes to make all of the citizens’ equal. Throughout his reign, the Soviet Union was crowded with war, disease, and destruction. His idea of a perfect communist society was anything but
Lenin became one of the most powerful and influential tsars in Russian history. He led Russia into a one-party communist country. Lenin fell when Joseph Stalin had him assassinated. This caused a serious uproar and led to a new form of communism. Finally, when Stalin came to power, he
Grant:What actually happened when Russia adopted communism was far from the idea of Karl Marx.After Russia had overturned the Tsarist rule and established a communist country they were actually doing pretty good for a while,the system was working fine,the people were happy and everyone was “equal”.After a Vladimir Lenin(head of government) got out of office a man named Joseph Stalin came into office. This is where it all went wrong. Stalin changed the leadership, and rules in the government and became a dictator. Millions of citizens died during his reign, although he turned the peasant society of the Soviet Union
First, Lenin took total control in Russia. At this time, the Bolsheviks became the Communist Party, and Russia was named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the USSR. In addition, he separated Russia into various governments to prevent nationalism from destroying the Communist Party. Second, Lenin had many beliefs on how he thought society should act. For instance, he believed that their country should have only one political party, and this is shown when he gets rid of every party except the Communist Party.
The Sino-Soviet split, occurring during the time 1960-1989, was the decline of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. China and the USSR were seen as the two largest communist states in the world during the 1960’s. The Chinese and Soviet national interests, and the governments' different interpretations of Marxism–Leninism was a resulting of the doctrinal separation.
Communism was first started in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They started it because they thought that if capitalism were to continue, workers were going to be exploited, and they wanted to prevent that from happening. They thought that they were doing the right thing by helping out people who
Communist rule was confined to the Soviet Union until the end of World War II.
Mexico and China were both influenced by ideals that would partially help the lower class, there were many revolutions by both of these countries. Zapata and Lenin helped the lower class by supporting the ideals that would improve conditions and resources for them. Russia followed communism, while Mexico followed socialism. Communism means in which the government controls all the resources and says that there is no private property, while socialism means the government controls some resources, but they new how to use them though. In both revolutions, disloyalty had began against Tsar and President Diaz. They became disloyal to Russia because of military loss, peasant oppression and anything that could've happened including passing multiple aspects of society which were revolutionaries, peasants, and the military. But only one man in Mexico started the revolutionary, Francisco Madero called for revolutions based on political injustices he experienced, the other problems were not motivators for his call to revolt. Tsar gave up the throne and President Diaz was removed in the process of these revolutions. I the end, the results of the revolutions were that they both influenced christianity; which still is here today, improved conditions for workers, and more power to the society. Yet separately Mexico elected government for power, and people got their religious freedoms; while Russia got Authoritarian government with complete power and religion was restricted but Orthodox had some religious
In the beginning Communism seemed to the people of Russia as a utopian ideal. The promise of the elimination of classes, of guaranteed employment, "The creation of a comprehensive social security and welfare system for all citizens that would end the misery of workers once and for all." Lenin's own interpretation of the Marxian critique was that to achieve Communism there would first have to be a socialist dictatorship to first suppress any dissent or protest. Through coercive tactics this new government seized power and in 1917 Lenin came to power. Under his "rule" Russia underwent radical changes in it's economic doctrines adopting a mixed which was termed the New Economic Policy, also referred to as NEP. This